Overtime

I urge the City Council to stop all this overtime for city employees ("Overtime budget buster," June 30). It reflects badly on the City Council's leadership and is poor management and oversight in these difficult economic times. These people are essentially raising our taxes and should be stopped immediately. The City Council should say no to all overtime except in emergencies like the snow storm. We shouldn't have to pay more taxes to keep over 800 of the same people for the last three years earning more than 30 percent of their salaries in overtime.

Same opponent, same result for Florida - but this time with a more painful outcome. For the second time this season, Syracuse beat the Gators in double overtime. On Friday, it was a 14-13 win in the NCAA women's lacrosse semifinals at LaValle Field in Stony Brook, N.Y. The win for the No. 4 Orange came after top-seeded Florida saw a seven-goal lead disappear as Syracuse took its only lead of the game with its final goal. "It's a game or runs and they made their run when it counted," Florida coach Amanda O'Leary said.

The No. 1 Bryn Mawr field hockey team had a reality check Saturday at the South River Invitational, while No. 4 Glenelg and No. 5 South River fought it out for the title. South River won the tournament, 3-2, in overtime on a blast by senior captain Courtney Thompson. "It was definitely exciting," Thompson said. "We decided to move me down further for the hit in overtime because the field was so rough further out. When Stacey [Mackintosh] got me the ball, I realized I had the perfect angle … and I just hit it as hard as I could.

Major Livingstone (Northwestern) scored the game-winner with two minutes left in the second overtime to lift the West over the East, 13-12, in the Baltimore City All-Star lacrosse game Wednesday at Mervo. William Gatling (Northwestern) scored his fourth goal with 24seconds left in regulation to tie the score at 12 and force overtime. Livingstone also finished with four goals. The West trailed 6-3 at the half. Baseball Class 2A state semifinals: Both games, Willamsport (13-9)

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Scott Mackenzie's lone goal of the game was the most significant one for the Princeton men's lacrosse team. The senior midfielder's blast from the right wing propelled the No. 8 Tigers to an 11-10 overtime win against No. 5 Johns Hopkins in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday. The game-winning play occurred when the Blue Jays tried to double-team Tigers junior attackman Jack McBride. Standing at the left point, McBride (three goals, one assist)

Kickoffs get the boot Bill Kline The Morning Call In the catalog of things that are unfair - right up there with broken NBC promises and oil cartels and Wendy's scrapping its salad bar - is the outdated NFL overtime rule. The team that wins the coin flip and returns the kickoff often needs only two or three first downs to get into field goal range. Game over. Solution: Retain sudden death, but abandon the kickoff. The team that wins the coin flip can start on offense but must do so on its own 15-yard line.

So, once again, it is only because of the vigilance of The Baltimore Sun that an issue like this overtime is raised ("Overtime budget buster," June 30). But, of course, now that The Sun has shined the light on it, everyone will react. Too bad that good management policies weren't already in place. In the Sheriff's Department, for example, we are told that there is a "new requirement that supervisors submit a weekly hourly total for commanders to review." This is a new requirement?

For a solution to the problem of excessive overtime pay costs in Baltimore City, we need only review a bit of history. The Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1937 was a job-creation technique. It established the 40-hour work week with penalty pay, also known as overtime pay, for hours worked over 40, weekends, holidays, and so on. This was a time of heavy unemployment. The hope was that by limiting working hours, more people would be employed. The health benefits of a more reasonable work week were incidental, but considered.

They waited through a three-hour delay for the start of the game because of a broken water main and then endured two overtimes, a raucous crowd at Cassell Coliseum and a Virginia Tech team that hadn't lost at home all season. In the end, the Maryland Terrapins survived, and celebrated with a thrilling 104-100 victory. It was Maryland's first win here since the Hokies joined the Atlantic Coast Conference and continued what is now a five-game winning streak going into Wednesday's showdown with Duke at Comcast Center.

Fallston senior Sam Nolan scored five goals in Saturday's Maryland Class 1A-2A girls lacrosse state semifinal against Parkside, with none bigger than the last at Bel Air High School. Nolan's goal, assisted by Heather Summers, with 46.7 seconds left in the second overtime, gave the Cougars a 14-13 win and a berth in the state finals. C. Milton Wright was eliminated from post-season play in a rematch of a game earlier this season. The Mustangs, who lost to Century during the regular season, fell 10-8 Friday night.

Finding a way to respond from demoralizing, soul-crushing defeats is nothing new for the Washington Capitals this season. They've managed to follow up disappointing losses by rallying around one another for weeks now, throughout the playoffs and dating to the end of the regular season. When they host the New York Rangers for Game 6 tonight, though, the Capitals will face the greatest challenge to their collective resiliency as they try to stave off elimination. Washington trails the top-seeded Rangers three games to two in their Eastern Conference semifinal series, and a loss at Verizon Center would end the Caps' season.

So much of the Washington Capitals' success in the postseason has stemmed from their ability to protect and hang on to even the slimmest of margins regardless of the adversity they faced. At a certain point, though, there was bound to be a break that went against them. On Monday night at Madison Square Garden it came in the form of a high-sticking call and double-minor penalty on Joel Ward late in the third period as Washington protected a one-goal lead. The New York Rangers scored twice on that power play — Brad Richards to force overtime, then Marc Staal 1:35 into the extra session — to secure a 3-2 victory and a three-games-to-two lead in this Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The storied lacrosse rivalry between Gilman and Boys' Latin added another chapter on Friday, picking up exactly where it left off last season. The latest version was once again tightly-contested, produced high drama, another one goal game and another Gilman win. Senior attackman Gordie Koerber provided the closing touch, neatly tucking home a shot in close with 1 minute, 42 seconds to play in overtime to give the No. 4 Greyhounds an 11-10...

Despite facing a short week and having to travel Tuesday to Denver for Wednesday night's start of the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament, top-seeded Loyola is eager to put the memory of its first loss of the season behind it. Junior long-stick midfielder Scott Ratliff, the league's Defensive Player of the Year, acknowledged Monday that Saturday's 10-9 overtime loss to No. 8 Johns Hopkins is still a little raw. “I think it's...

UMBC's opponent Wednesday night in one semifinal of the America East tournament is Albany, a foe that the Retrievers memorably edged, 17-16, in overtime on April 14. In that contest, UMBC overcame a 16-11 deficit with a five-goal run in a span of 2 minutes, 18 seconds in the fourth quarter and then got a goal from junior attackman Scott Jones with 2:17 left in overtime to cap the impressive rally. Coach Don Zimmerman is fully expecting the Great Danes to use that loss as inspiration for Wednesday night's game at UMBC Stadium in Catonsville.

The McDonogh boys lacrosse team watched their four-goal lead vanish quickly in the fourth quarter of Saturday's match against St. Mary's. But the No. 5 Eagles bounced back in overtime. Junior midfielder Austin Frederick scored with 54 seconds left in the 4-minute overtime period to lift the Eagles to a 12-11 win over the No.4 Saints in Annapolis. Frederick finished three goals and three assists, Evan Glaser had four goals and an assist and goalie Nick Doyle stopped 10 shots to help pull out the win. The Eagles improve to 6-5 on the season and 2-2 in the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association's A Conference, while the Saints (8-4)

The senior goalie was busy and at her best Friday as the No. 2 Mawrtians (14-1) earned an 8-7 overtime win over No. 7 Notre Dame Prep. Wolf - a four-year varsity player and an All-Metro first-team selection last season - finished with 16 saves, nine coming in the second half and one in overtime to complete a 2-0 week for the Mawrtians. On Tuesday, she made four saves on seven shots in limited action as Bryn Mawr defeated Severn, 15-6. Set to play at Loyola, Wolf is rated the No. 2 goalie and the No. 12 player overall in the ESPNHS Class of 2012 Top 100. This season, she has saved 57 percent of the shots she's faced, and in her four years, she has 405 saves.

Johns Hopkins did what only Ohio State had done this season: limit Loyola to under 10 goals. The No. 13 Blue Jays' 10-9 overtime upset of the No. 1 Greyhounds was exemplified by the play of junior defenseman Tucker Durkin, who surrendered just one goal on six shots to junior attackman Mike Sawyer. Sawyer had entered the game as Loyola's leader in both goals (40) and points (48). With junior defenseman Chris Lightner allowing senior attackman Eric Lusby to score twice, Durkin and Lightner kept the duo of Sawyer and Lusby under their combined average of 7.6 points per game.